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Name:	Situated in a Community of Practice: Leadership Preparation Practices to Support Leadership in K-8 Schools
ID:	m36634
Language:	English (en)
Summary:	This paper reports on the qualitative second phase of a mixed method study that examined the relationships among leader preparation practices and leader, school, and student outcomes through the use of two focus groups (N=8, N=7) to investigate the following research questions: (a) What practices are used by leaders to improve student achievement and to improve the school learning environment? (b) What professional learning experiences support school leaders in improving student achievement and school learning environments? A framework emerged based on the analysis to describe the core practices of school leaders and preparation programs. The framework was derived by synthesizing the focus group results, the initial survey research phase (Braun, Gable, & Kite, 2008) results, and the literature on school leader and preparation program practices. These findings support the further inclusion of specific preparation practices into leader preparation programs.
Subject:	Social Sciences
License:	Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 3.0

Authors:	Donna Braun (dbraun@jwu.edu), Robert Gable (rgable@jwu.edu), Stacey Kite (skite@jwu.edu)
Copyright Holders:	Donna Braun (dbraun@jwu.edu), Robert Gable (rgable@jwu.edu), Stacey Kite (skite@jwu.edu)
Maintainers:	National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (tcreigh@vt.edu)

Latest version:	1.4 (history)
First publication date:	Dec 21, 2010 4:24 pm -0600
Last revision to module:	Jan 3, 2011 12:55 pm -0600

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Version:	1.4 Jan 3, 2011 12:55 pm -0600 by National Council of Professors of Educational Administration
Changes:	author edit.

Version:	1.3 Jan 3, 2011 11:27 am -0600 by National Council of Professors of Educational Administration
Changes:	Results section was duplicated - fixed.

Version:	1.2 Dec 26, 2010 6:00 pm -0600 by National Council of Professors of Educational Administration
Changes:	IJELP added

Version:	1.1 Dec 26, 2010 10:01 am -0600 by National Council of Professors of Educational Administration
Changes:	Editors' final pages proofs

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